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dancing_cactus.gifIn this essay, I will be talking about the desert. In a desert, the temperature is different each day. On Tuesday, it was 68 degrees. On Wednesday, it was 72 degrees. On Thursday, it was 72 degrees and on Friday, it was 82 degrees.


Plants:In the desert, we have a plant called barrel cactus. When you imagine a desert,what do you think of? Sand, heat, but most likely it is a cactus. The cactus is probably the most well known plant of the desert. In American deserts, the barrel cactus is the most popular. The barrel cactus can be easily detected from other cactuses.



Animals: A animal in the desert are Armadillo lizard,Bandedd Gila Monster a gila monster is a very shy but can strike back very quickly,with painful rsults.Gila monster are two veomous types of lizards in the world.and they have a ,cautus wren coyote,javelina
keyanna_56.jpgLocation: some places the desert is located in is kalahari,mojave, monte, sahara, sonoran,arabian, australian and chihuahuan.
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climate :the dry desert is in koppen's it is low latitude climate A dry desert climates are formed by hight-pressure zones in which cold air desends .then the descends. by the way approximately 1in .25cm of rain in the dry desert
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Food chain:In a desert it may rain for only a very short time in a year so the plants here have adapted to survive.Their long roots collect as much water from the ground as possible.SURVIVING WITH OUT RAIN
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Desert habitat:



Desert cover about one fifth (20 percent) of earth land area.the desert is a harsh environment with very little rain fall and extreme temperatures.

specific Animal:
The nostrils of the Armadillo lizard are formed into little tubes.The tubes helpthe Armadillo lizard smell for food or predators.A ground dwelling lizard,it is active in the daytime and feeds on a wide variety of insects as well as on spiders and other invertebrates
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trees:
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A desert and the desert have no leaves on them because it to hot and they would just fall of and because they do not get a lot of rain but some tress do have leaves in the desert.